EDWIN

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• EDWIN (noun)
  The noun EDWIN has 1 sense:

1. king of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

  Familiarity information: EDWIN used as a noun is very rare.

• EDWIN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

King of Northumbria who was converted to Christianity (585-633)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

king; male monarch; Rex (a male sovereign; ruler of a kingdom)

 Context examples 

Everybody knows you are the most selfish, heartless creature in existence: and I know your spiteful hatred towards me: I have had a specimen of it before in the trick you played me about Lord Edwin Vere: you could not bear me to be raised above you, to have a title, to be received into circles where you dare not show your face, and so you acted the spy and informer, and ruined my prospects for ever.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)